Tropical Rat Mite Dermatitis: Case Report and Review
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Tropical rat mite dermatitis: case report and review.
Six medical students inhabiting a centuries-old, rat-infested house in Lübeck, in northern Germany, were suffering from itching papules and seropapules. Prior to these patients' visit to our institute, their conditions had been diagnosed as pediculosis, scabies, or pulicosis and treated unsuccessfully with the antiparasitic agent lindane (0.3%). The final diagnosis, tropical rat mite dermatitis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/515016